Don Ketchum
Former Staff Writer, AZPreps365.com

Oklahoma team earns Best of West baseball title

March 16, 2011 by Don Ketchum, AZPreps365

"=""> By Don Ketchum
"=""> At Yukon (Okla.) High School, alma mater of country music star Garth Brooks, they do more than just pick and grin.
"=""> They pitch, hit and play defense. That creates a successful baseball program.
"=""> It was on display in the Best of the West Tournament at Peoria Sunrise Mountain High.
"=""> The Millers lost their first two games of the tournament, but battled back to reach the championship game on Wednesday. They were patient, breaking through for four runs in the top of the seventh for a 4-0 victory over Sunrise Mountain and took the tournament title back home with them on their big white bus gliding down Interstate 40.
"=""> Yukon raised its record to 6-2 overall and was 4-2 in the tournament. Sunrise Mountain fell to 9-2.
"=""> “I like to call us a scrappy team,’’ said Yukon coach Kevin James. “We get guys on base, do what we need to do.